Meanwhile, a spike in burglaries — anyone ready to fire up the old Batman spotlight? — plagues the city.

The first page of the B section, topped with a masthead font nearly indistinguishable from the New York Observer's, leads with a story about Zach Harris, the Gotham Rogues star receiver, renewing his contract with the fictional football team. It's probably not coincidental that one Zach Harris is senior brand manager for Mountain Dew, a major promotional partner on "Dark Knight."

The back page features a story about a ransacked construction site and, perhaps more interestingly, an ad for Rykin Data. The listed URL leads to a website under construction, save for the PDF of a patent on an algorithm for "targeted data detection and elimination" registered to an "A. Heiberger."